Posted on: 01/05/2018

I recently had to do some load testing. I just don’t seem to have any luck with any of the popular solutions:

I totally appreciate this is open source software. Still, if something sucks - it should be documented.

wrk

• It seems to have issues, in that it does not report failures. https://github.com/wg/wrk/issues/336

siege

• It’ll skip failed URLs rather than retry. https://github.com/JoeDog/siege/issues/129

ab

• Does not allow you to specify multiple URLs
• INVALID URL if you forget a trailing slash. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10483833/apache-ab-will-not-work-ab-invalid-url-when-testing-python-cyclone

Alternative suggestions (not a recommendation!)

https://github.com/skedgeme/wrecker